Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. Whistleberry Brickworks, Blantyre. . . . .

Whistleberry Brickworks, Blantyre later Raeburn Bricks. Canmore Below – 13/10/1937 – The Scotsman – John and R Finlay propose new brickworks at Whistleberry. Below – 26/08/1938 – The Scotsman – John and R. D Finlay to erect new brick works at Hamilton on the site of the former Whistleberry Colliery. The site has been purchased…

Found by Stevie Pattison in the Paisley area Whistleberry Brickworks, Blantyre . . . . Below – a slightly smaller brick but with the same brickmark. Found in the Glasgow area by Eddie McLean.

17/06/1820 – Caledonian Mercury – The brick s making business is now extremely flat. There are thirty-five brick manufactories within about two miles of Glasgow, of these only 10 are working and twenty-four are totally idle. Every field is supposed to produce 500,000 bricks yearly, consequently, there has been a falling off of 12,000,000 in…